Beat Furrer is one of
contemporary music's most interesting composers of the moment in Europe. Since
the 90s, Beat Furrer describes his act of creation as a search, almost
archaeological, of sound, bringing to the surface invisible layers. In a
complex process consisting of simultaneous movements that overlap, merge and
filter each other, he reveals a sound landscape that he projects into time. A
music born of the discovery, but hidden, waiting to be revealed, as an evidence...

SPUR means
"trace" in German and carries in itself the mystery of multiple
stories focused on one point: the notions of time, space and movement are
intertwined. The movement is imagined in a frozen trace, becoming sediments.
The capture of a past action that focuses fables and facts, past and present in
an unspoken and poetic interpretation.

The choreography takes up the idea of gravity of the movement and its
traces. The footprints that we discover in the undergrowth are the marks of a
narration, of a story: the story of the walker who made them, and the history of
time, wind and rain that have altered them. The past of the action and present
of this discovery come together and merge. This temporal juxtaposition made of observation,
imagination and bodily sensations are also central elements in the
choreographic language of Shang-Chi Sun. His dance, between Asian movement tradition
and contemporary dance, draws its strength from a simple and minimal
inspiration: the trace is primarily an expression of weight, but also moving
it, it becomes a momentum that transforms into movement as a starting point of
a complex and multiple development.

"I try
to capture the stories and bodily dimensions contained in the apparently abstract
steps. There is a hidden message in gravity, which leads to the human. Do
intense exchanges between contemporary music and movement offer a new
perspective on the perception of the body? The sounds are like a key for sizing
and witnessing the steps of the dancer. Beat Furrer's music is both daring and
sensual. His way of composing is often unexpected and always masterful. He
never hesitates to exploit the full potentiality of the instruments to
experiment with new soundscapes. I want to bind my choreography to this
particular music, let it leaded and transformed by it until revealing a new
understanding of gravity and weight of the body. This is the starting point for
me to search for a new perspective of the movement, a new language, perhaps."

Shang-Chi Sun

PRESS REVIEWS

Three men, one woman. All young, fully in the
matter, technically high experienced, inventive. Shang-Chi Sun as the creator
of such a wild and subtle work did a great job.

Stefan Amzoll, Neues Deutschland, July 11, 2016

Eye-catching is the beginning, without having
any sound to hear. Quite a big thing. (...) With a solo part (â€¦) Ying Ting An,
a dancer originally coming from Taiwan like the choreographer, opens the
"track". (...) All her effort is so subtle devoted to fill with dance
that silence and to give sense to it that the space does not cease to
"sound", without a tone coming up. Because silence is sound.

Stefan Amzoll, Neues Deutschland, July 11, 2016

This one-hour "track" does not end
before the turbulences are evaporated and all movement turns back to peace.
Morendo, danced abandonment of single tones builds up the final metaphor.
Silence like at the beginning. But the outcome of this highly successful, the
senses captivating evening is tragic.

Stefan Amzoll, Neues Deutschland, July 11, 2016

The encounter of dance and live music does not
always mean that the musicians move from the spot. However, the cellist Ringela
Riemke and the pianist Frank Gutschmidt of the Ensemble KNM Berlin pounce with
verve into the difficult scores. Their concentrated performance has something
immensely physical, as well as the sounds seem very physical.

Sandra Luzina, Tagesspiegel, July 11, 2016

This is not a deadly serious evening where you
reverently listen at each Pling. The dancers bring playful wit and imagination
into a music of recalcitrant-brittle sensuality. (â€¦) But as Beat Furrer
explores the possibilities of the instruments, also Shang-Chi Sun searches for
other forms of expression. He gives his splendid dancers a large freedom, and
that's what makes the encounter with the music so exciting.